Signed. Waterstones, what are you doing?

Not Long Now till Dawn, by Arbrevyn 11 track album

The Arbrevyn album is live!!! Download codes have gone out to backers, we have signed many MANY CDs and we’ll be shipping them soon. arbrevyn.bandcamp.com/album/not-lo...

Just make it exist, you can make it good later

#pixelart

Arbrevyn's Debut Album Launch We would like to invite you to celebrate the release of our debut album, Not Long Now Till Dawn. Come along and hear all the songs from the album in an intimate accoustic set - and have the chance to...

Gig link: wegottickets.com/event/680574
Bandcamp: Check out the album: arbrevyn.bandcamp.com/album/not-lo...

A print in dark teal and vivid orange, being held up on a park. It is swirly with a number of objects including a sun, moon, gorse, fiddle, books, bobbins, fish, a compass, a candle, a pick, a dagger, a wineglass and a swallow, around circles of the words “To welcome on the new year while the leaves are gone the pines who kept their needles keep us dancing on “

Babies first Risograph! I’m really happy with how it turned out, MARC The Printers did a great job. If you’d like one and didn’t already get one on the Arbrevyn kickstarter, we’ll be selling them at our album launch gig in Sheffield on Sunday, and then on Bandcamp

“Mental object ie Mobject”

Thank you for your service and the sacrifice of your algo

I got this today as well! We manifested it!

Can of Siren “playlist” hazy IPA. The can is black, pink, blue and yellow with very print texture/zine vibes

This was the choice. Tropical hoppy thing, music based name, gorgeous can (got cool texture and spot UV stuff going on). He’d be into it.

Barry Coope reading the newspaper behind a mic and keyboard

Bonus blurry picture of dad with mic and keys being very sensible in a Tams & Coope gig (just before a paper-tearing solo)

A kind white haired man with black rimmed glasses and a plaid shirt, raising a pint to the camera with a rather embarrassed smile.

Still miss you, Dad. Gonna go look for a nice beer to raise to you in a bit. Wish you could be here to hear it, but keeping singing anyway.

I took it home with me after he’d gone, made a new mic bobble to replace the one that had gone missing over the years, and now it live in my office, along with my own mic and keyboard.

because why keep silly merch of a fandom you don’t even know?

But at the end I spotted it was on the bookshelves in his room. He’d kept it over 20 years.

I don’t think he knew what it was (I barely did) but a keys playing AND singing dragon made me think of him too much not to get it for him. As the years passed and I grew up, I always assumed he had gotten rid of it…

A yellow plush 3 headed dragon in shades with a mic, the middle head singing and a 2 layer keyboard

It’s 4 years since we lost my wonderful dad, and as he was and I remain a silly creature, I thought I’d share something silly that touched me. When I was a teen I bought back this King Ghidorah toy for him from a trip to San Fransisco.

🐓Weird Ancient Birds Art Challenge
Draw mythical birds with your imagination! An ancient mythic geographic compilation, Shanhai jing is full of weird birds. Its illustrations were lost long ago. Why don’t we imagine them from the descriptions in the text? Here is the prompt list
#30WeirdAncientBirds

An awesome 🧵, especially w/ current fuckery.

Also recommending 4 cookbooks:
* YOU GOTTA EAT by Margaret Eby
* THE SAD BASTARD COOKBOOK by Zilla Novikov and Rachel A Rosen
* THE POORCRAFT COOKBOOK by Iron Circus Comics
* GOOD AND CHEAP by Leanne Brown

Nab from library or get online PDFs if you can.

Them!! Also this pose is so nice!

It was so cute, it makes me very happy :)

I didn’t have as set an avatar at the time, so real me XD

Once more remembering the time many years ago an American mom emailed me to ask how her child could dress as me for Halloween. I’m still sad I can’t find the emails any more (she sent a photo of the result!)

It is extra funny to me because here in the uk we only really do costumes of spooky things.

TGIF 31.10.25 "The Blind Harper" - with Katy Coope A special episode for you on Halloween, including a deep dive into Child Ballad #192 "The Blind Harper / The Lochmaben Harper", and a chat with our pal Katy Coope about the debut album of her harmony ...

Also also the lovely @jamesfagan.bsky.social invited me to have a little chat on today’s Thank Goodness It’s Folk and share a first play of the single! It’s up on mix cloud for you to listen here www.mixcloud.com/Jimbobfagan/...

A purple and pink painty gradient with thin yellow radiating circles. It contains the text “Bouncing Sam Jago/Hyga Jig aka SPOOKY JIGS” with “Arbrevyn” and “Not Long Now till Dawn” at the bottom

Hello lovely people! To celebrate spooky day, Arbrevyn have released a terrifying* first single from our album ahead of its launch on the 16th Nov. Get those dancing skeletons ready cause it’s time for some JIGS

arbrevyn.bandcamp.com/track/bounci...

*if you are scared of cute bouncy folk tunes

It feels like mostly a play to undercut Adobe to be honest. An absolutely knives out manoeuvre.

The Arbrevyn stuff has been the first album I’ve laid out in a fully Affinity+Procreate workflow and it’s been really nice. Please don’t mess up a good thing Canva

Feeling deeply weird about the Affinity announcement. Free, all in one app instead of three and they don’t train on your stuff, all good. Bringing in Canva’s Gen AI stuff ehhhhhhhh. Apparently you can hide the button and the AI is paywalled but it leaves a bad taste.

They did at least explicitly say they don’t train on your work, and you can hide the AI stuff but yeahhhh, saddening

Man, who is this guy saying there are no women fans of Star Trek. I did a whole history of women in Star Trek fandom two years ago

Colour piece based on Emerald Coast from Sonic Adventure. Sonic running along a strip of beach, with dolphins jumping out of the water around him.

Been busy lately (in very good way) but trying to have a couple of cute new bits for Sonic Con UK next week. Been embracing my scribbles again!

Artwork of the Death Egg launch scene from the end of Sonic 3 & Knuckles. Sonic, Tails and Knuckles in shadow in the foreground watching it rise through the clouds.

Another bit of scribbling that went too far! Always found this bit very memorable in the old games. #SonicTheHedgehog #Sonic3&Knuckles